One of the highlights of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year was a panel that included the heads of some of the top universities in the United States including Harvard, Stanford, and MIT, and joining this prestigious group, a young 11 year old Pakistani girl. This 11 year old earned her seat on this esteemed panel as the result of her extraordinary performance in a Stanford University online educational program after competing with thousands of others from across the world. The panel had a rigorous discussion about online or in person education and the benefits to both.

Online or In Person
The debate as to whether virtual classroom education or face-to-face training is more effective is a hot topic among many educators. I too, am interested in this debate, since my company delivers web based and face-to-face leadership programs, and usually driven by the request of our clients. It is no surprise that the panel discussion created an interesting conversation and has many of us wonder about the benefits of face-to-face vs virtual education. Bill Gates predicts that online education will trump traditional education within the decade. He could very well be right.

Online is so Easy
I do lots of things online that I used to do in person, from shopping for shoes, paying bills, and playing games with my family, to name just a few. I almost give no thought to these processing these activities online, as they have become second nature to do in this way. I have to admit; I however, have trouble imagining online learning would become my “go to” preference for sustainable changes in behavior or development of certain skill sets. Can you imagine learning how to play golf, learn piano, or the art of managing high stakes conversations, or developing your leadership to the next level, online? I have to say, I can’t.

I’m still skeptical in spite of Bill Gates prediction, but I am open to the conversation. Email me, info@visionquestconsulting.com or post on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/visionquestconsulting if you have had an experience developing your leadership online that knocked your socks off. I’m specifically interested in increases in work related leadership, communication, impact, and sustainable behavior change experiences.

4 Critical Learning Components
Whether it’s online or face-to-face, the 4 critical components to learning anything are:
1.Relevancy. Is it relevant to you at this moment in time, so you can implement immediately or shortly?
2.Matches your learning style. Is it based in adult learning theory (assuming you are an adult!) to increase your deep understanding and therefore, learning?
3.Content is king. Is it rich in content with opportunities to practice each individual segment of skill development?
4.Measurement. What we measure will expand and grow. Can you measure and track your improvement and results?

I can’t argue with the fact that there is a distinct trend across the world of work becoming more virtual, as many of us prefer email over picking up the phone and Skype versus meeting face-to-face. However, I am leaning in the direction that some things are better and more effective done in person. This is a really big question with no clear cut answers for both educators and for those of us learning new things.

And maybe it’s not an “either or” answer, but instead, deciding when to use which learning tool to create the most effective results.

What do you think?

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I was thinking of leadership today (occupational hazard, I’m afraid) and wondering what might inspire and help us move our goals forward. Here’s what I know. Leaders do their work through others with a combination of doing the right things and what we call in my line of work, “who we be.” Another way of saying this is, leaders inspire other people to move the goals forward by combining what they do with who they are to get results. Doing and being.

I really love this concept of doing and being. I’m so good at the doing side of the equation. Just look at how much I did last month to move my goals forward (get on our mailing list to read our monthly leadership newsletter). Impressive actually; well at least I think so. And the sense of accomplishment I have in my progress is strong and I feel satisfied that I am on track. Of course, I would feel better if I was done, but to get to a big goal (and all three feel huge to me), requires time, patience, and stick-to-it-ness.

I am not so good at the being part, as I am naturally inclined to drive results through action, execution and implementation. I often wonder what will I actually get done if I slow down and listen to my intuition or smell the roses etc. I should know better, especially since, Take a Time Out is step #2 in my book,“9 Steps to Creating Your Next Bold Move; A Guide for Women Who Want to Turn Their Ideas and Dreams Into Reality” and I know logically, the most effective away to execute is to combine the action of doing and the art of being.

3 Secrets to Being
I’ve learned to schedule “being” into my days and weeks, making sure I make the time to connect to my intuition and listen to my gut. Here are my secret weapons.

1.Meditate. It’s so hard for me to meditate and I’ve tried off and on for years without lasting success. I have finally found something that works which I started to do about a month ago. I downloaded a 15 minute meditation into my iTunes and every morning before getting out of bed, I put on my earphones and bliss out.
2.Energy Healing. When I’m not traveling, I schedule some kind of energy healing or body work session. My passions are massage, cranial sacral therapy or reiki. These quiet hour-long sessions connect me to what I care about most and reduce my stress levels by at least 2000% (no that’s no typo)!
3.Exercise. I like to exercise every day if I can. It’s such a zone experience as I am so focused, I can’t think of anything else but the weights, the treadmill or the inspirational music playing in my headset. Even though I’m doing exercise, my mind is on a mini vacation, which is so necessary for the driven crazy active life I lead.

Doing, is sometimes referred to as masculine energy and is externally focused. It’s about going, making, breaking, winning and achieving. It is the world of the solid; you can see it, touch it and hold it in your hands. It is often fast, hard, solid, focused, and aggressive; and is associated with the element of fire.

Being is more of a feminine energy and more internally focused. I like to think of it as an inner journey where we listen to our inner voice and desires. Being, is sometimes referred to as receptive, psychic, emotional, creative, generative, artistic, art and beauty. It is the formless, we sometimes wonder if it is real and is slow, flowing, soft, yielding, and passive; and is associated with the element of water.

Polarities are all around us all the time; hot cold, up down, and doing and being. Learning to manage the polarities is the tricky part. In order to accomplish our goals, well anything really, we must learn to balance and combine the external with the internal, the inner with the outer, horizontal action with the vertical quiet reflection and, you guessed it, doing and being. Most people have an inner pull to either external action or internal reflection and have to court and nurture the other. Similar to being right or left handed. Which comes more naturally to you? We could manage with our less dominant hand, but it takes concentration and practice and much easier to use our natural hand.

Possibilities and Next Steps
Pick a few activities that zone or bliss you out. Do them at least once a day. Twice would be even better. It’s not really optional; it will save your life, as you will learn to connect to your deepest desires, and reduce your stress, big time.

To help you, read Chapter 2 in my book,“9 Steps to Creating Your Next Bold Move; A Guide for Women Who Want to Turn Their Ideas and Dreams Into Reality” to give you ideas and suggestions for taking a time out in your life.

If you want some support on accomplishing your goals, remember you can email me info@visionquestconsulting.com or go to my blog to post how you are doing. And of course, you can contact us to find out how we can support you by hiring us to be your leadership coach or to train your managers and top talent to increase their leadership skills, behaviors and results.

Here’s to your continued success!

Today is International Women’s Day, a worldwide celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women. Times have changed. Did you know that in the US today, two thirds of women are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in American households? In the majority of these families, work means not just personal success and advancement, but survival. The money that women bring home now is so critical to their families and the stakes now are so high, that the issues that used to be “women’s issues” now profoundly affect a broader landscape: children, men, the workforce, and society as a whole.

Yesterday in the Huffington Post, Maria Shriver wrote a compelling article, Why Women Must Lean In, and the issues we face today as a society that impact women and their leadership;a concept that Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook bases her soon to be released book, Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will To Lead.

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I will be speaking on the Remembering Our Magic teleseminar on April 19th at 3PM.

Remembering Our Magic is a teleseminar series created for women to help them heal what holds them back, harness their unique gifts and talents and take those gifts and talents global!

Reserve your seat by clicking here: and make sure to listen to my class titled, Making Your Bold Next Move!

See you on the call!

Wendy

So now it’s February and either the New Year’s Resolutions you declared are a sweet dream of the past month or you are still moving forward, one step at a time. I love getting what I want, don’t you? I care more about getting what I want, than I do about stopping my progress because I think my goals are either too challenging, I might fail, or I must have been out of my mind to think I could pull it off, which are all thoughts I have had on and off over the last six weeks.
If you read last month’s “Leadership Impact Newsletter”, we talked about New Year’s Resolutions and setting goals for ourselves. And to walk my talk alongside you on this journey, I announced 3 really big goals for myself.

Wendy’s 3 Goals:

1. To become an Amazon.com best selling author on June 5, 2013 with the launch of my new book, 9 Steps to Creating Your Next Bold Move; A Guide for Women Who Want to Turn Their Ideas and Dreams Into Reality
2. To inspire one million women to take a bold step personally or professionally on June 5th alongside the book launch.
3. To increase my fitness and nutrition habits
Some of us have started to forget about the resolutions or goals we set for ourselves. For me, I still have the same goals, but I notice they are slower and harder than I imagined. Are you finding the same thing? Write me an email at info@visionquestconsulting.com or go to my blog to post how it’s going for you. Let’s inspire and support each other!

Possibilities and Next Steps
With anything we try to do for the first time or re-try because it didn’t work the last time we tried it, some parts of it seem easy, and others, more difficult than we imagined. I advise keeping a list of what’s working and going well so you can have a sense of your accomplishments, how far you’ve come, and motivate yourself to keep going. It’s a great strategy. And for goodness sake, follow Step #6 in my book, 9 Steps to Creating Your Next Bold Move; A Guide for Women Who Want to Turn Their Ideas and Dreams Into Reality which advises, “Surround Yourself with Extreme Support.” Here is my list of what’s working related to my own goals:
- I hired a book launch coach to help me with the structure and details of how to launch something of this magnitude.
- I am developing a book website to be completed if all goes well, in the next couple of months.
- I’m putting some systems in place like purchasing Office Auto Pilot, as Constant Contact no longer meets my growing business needs.
- I hired fitness and nutritional expert Kelly LaCasse of Inhale Exhale Fitness, to work out with me once a week and teach me on how to get fitter and to help me with my food choices. In spite of my initial setback last month on day one of my food journal, I have continued tracking my food intake and actually stopped myself from eating all the chocolate goodies at my last Board Meeting just because I would have to write it down and show Kelly.

Wow, I am surprised at how good I feel just looking at my list of accomplishments. I highly encourage you to write your own list of accomplishments and notice how good you too will feel. Of course, there are a number of things that aren’t going so well but I think if I keep taking one step at a time, just like I hope you will, we both cannot help but to continue to move our goals forward. (I can’t tell you how tempted I am to write down and share with you all the things that have gone wrong and not working out, because the list is pretty substantial. But then I ask myself, which is more powerful, to focus on what I have accomplished, or on what I have not with all the negative aspects?) Duh!

3 Next Steps to Keep Yourself Moving and in the Game
To keep moving forward, a bit at a time there are 3 things I recommend you do, starting right now:
1. Re-Commit. Ask yourself whether you still want the goal(s) and then remind yourself how much and why it matters to you. You might even write down your compelling reasons “why” and post them where you can see them daily.
2. Re-Configure. If you are feeling stuck, tweak what you are doing to make it easier to be successful. I was having trouble working out on the days I wasn’t working out with Kelly, so I asked her to create a work out plan for me to follow in between our training sessions.
3. Take One Step. You don’t have to do your goal(s) all at once, or even imagine that it’s possible (in spite of my optimism and glass half full approach to life, I don’t really see how I’m going to inspire one million women to step boldly on June 5th but I’m still moving forward, one step at a time, and following my coach, Kelly Walden Sullivan’s plan and structure). All you and I have to do is just take another step. All goals, big or small are achieved one step at a time. If it were easy, you probably wouldn’t have set it as a New Year’s Resolution or goal. You’ll hate yourself if you quit now, so just decide what step comes next and do it.

Summary


It’s hard enough to move our own goals forward. For many of you, you manage, work, or live with others where you are responsible for supporting them in attaining their goals. The best way you can be a good leader, coach, mentor, parent, or boss in this regard is to go through this process yourself. Your experience will be a critical factor in the inspiration, motivation and direction you provide for others as they too struggle with taking their next bold steps and attaining their most important goals.

If you want some support on accomplishing your goals, remember you can email me info@visionquestconsulting.com or go to my blog to post how you are doing. And of course, you can contact us to find out how we can support you by hiring us to be your leadership coach or to train your managers and top talent to increase their leadership skills, behaviors and results.

Here’s to your continued success, and mine!

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3 Steps to Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions

I have just set a very challenging goal for myself. You may be aware that I just published a new book, 9 Steps to Creating Your Next Bold Move; A Guide for Women Who Want to Turn Their Ideas and Dreams Into Reality.

It’s all very exciting, but now the hard part is ahead of me; the book launch. My book launch goal is to inspire one million women to make their next bold move and to become an Amazon.com best selling author all on June 1, 2013. On one hand this seems like a very over the top, crazy, inconceivable goal and in spite of my fear of not being able to actually make it happen and looking like a fool for trying, it makes my soul sing with joy, a sign that I am on the right track.

So, I am following my own advice below in how to accomplish any goal or New Year Resolution and invite you to join me. Select a goal that gets you jazzed up and together, month-by-month, we can follow each other’s progress. Post a comment as to how you are doing. Maybe we can inspire and support each other!

A New Year. A New You.
We all have good intentions every January, don’t we? A new year always brings about new thoughts about how we might improve our circumstances and ourselves. This year, along with my book launch project, one of my resolutions is to get in better shape. Anyone else out there have the same resolution? I hired a fitness and nutrition coach to help motivate and train me in how to do it right. During our first work out (just last week), she asked me to track my daily fat intake for one week as part of my goal to reduce my body fat percentage. This sounded like a perfectly reasonable request and quite easy to do as I got a shiny new notebook to start my tracking. I had really good intentions to follow through with this request, but after one day of writing down everything I ate, I decided this was going to be a pain in the neck and I didn’t like what I saw in my journal (which essentially was recording my food intake), and after one day, I decided this wasn’t for me.

Anyone with me, here?

We all have good intentions and then, maybe you last longer than I did, but it is not a surprise to anyone that sometimes New Year’s resolutions work and many times, they don’t. Wouldn’t it be great to improve your chances of having these important personal and professional intentions turn out to our advantage? I know I would for both my personal and my professional goals.

Attitudes Give Us Altitude.
Attitudes are the way we think about things and they are habitual. New attitudes and new ways of thinking are habits too. Create a new way of thinking and you can change any habit with time and persistence. Did you know that professional athletes spend most of their time practicing and far less time performing? In contrast, most of us in the business world spend none of our time practicing and all of our time performing. I went to a business development seminar last month where they suggested doing 10 high priority things before 10AM each and every morning. This is a great priority practicing strategy. 

The key to developing new habits lies in practice to the point of mastery. This idea is not new. Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

 If Aristotle was right, then we need to keep doing the things that work to get us where we want to go and do them over and over and over again. Studies show that people who set goals, (and New Year’s Resolutions are goals), achieve more than those who don’t. Those same studies confirm that when people write down their goals and refer to them regularly, they achieve great success. 


Here are the 3 Steps to Effective Goal Achievement and Creating New Habits:
1. Write your goals down. Writing clarifies what you really want.
2. Develop an action plan. Describe how you will achieve your goals by writing down step-by-step how you will accomplish each one. Your action plan should include who is responsible, what is required, and when each step will be accomplished.
3. Just do it. 

The hardest part is to actually DO the steps. Remember a good idea is just a good idea until you actually do something about it and take action. 

We all are good at making appointments with others but we often have difficulty making appointments with ourselves to accomplish the tasks that are important to our success. Make an appointment with yourself and write your action steps into whatever calendar scheduling system you use, Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, etc.

Determine metrics to measure your goals. To do this, ask yourself the question, “What would have to happen to make me satisfied?” And of course, track and measure your results.



Summary


No matter what our role or job, whether we work for ourselves, or someone else, we all need to be the leader of ourselves. Self leadership, I think is the hardest of all to master.

Take baby steps towards what you want. Who says you have to jump off a cliff every morning to get where you are going, even if your goal is a big one like inspiring one million women to make a bold move all on the same day? Not all of the goals you set for yourself need be major. Even working on minor ones will help you maintain more control over your life.

Accomplishing any of your goals will give you great satisfaction. As you generate success you will find it easier to work on the rest of your goals. Success breeds more success. 

You are a leader. People will observe you achieving success. Lead yourself and others to improve yourself and use the three steps to successful goal achievement, which are simple to understand but difficult to execute. Don’t give up if you fall off track. Which makes me think, I should go back to tracking fat grams at least for the week. Refocus and rededicate to your goal. Use a coach or mentor to assist in holding you accountable. If you want some support, on accomplishing your goals, remember you can post how you are doing here. And of course, you can contact us info@visionquestconsulting.com to find out how we can support you by hiring us to be your leadership coach.

One can never have enough support in our lives from like-minded and spirited others!

Happy New Year!

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As a contributing author to the new book, “Shift Happens”, I wanted to let you know about how you can take advantage of a great deal (scroll down to skip the details and go right to the deal).

In October, I was part of a rather remarkable experience where 50 coaches and leadership development thought leaders met in Braselton, Georgia to participate in a very unique conference. The event was called CAMalot (CAM = Conversation Among Masters). The result was a lot of learning, sharing of best practices and a collaborative book, created in less than 3 days and published 8 weeks later, that is now available on CreateSpace and Amazon.


The title is Shift Happens: Musings from Digital Immigrants to Future Generations on Navigating the Age of Transformation (Volume 1) – Click to read more about this fascinating collections of essays, poetry and more.

An Unusual Experiment
(by Suzanne Murray)
Look around the room, the country or the planet today, and the degree to which technology and innovation have permeated human existence may seem astounding. The question is—how are we as a people and world navigating this transformation? Has all this technology made us safer, stronger, smarter and more efficient or has it turned us into robot humans?

Shift Happens: Musings from Digital Immigrants to Future Generations on Navigating the Age of Transformation (Volume 1) explores this important question of whether technology today is uniting or dividing us.

With the power of laptops, iPads, virtual editors and graphic designers, and on-demand printing, this unique book was written in less than twenty-four hours and published in less than two months as part of a single three-day period at the CAMalot conference in Braselton, Georgia in October.

Each contribution—whether presented in the form of an essay, poem, letter, dialogue or fairytale—reveals valuable nuggets of wisdom to ponder as the human race shifts seemingly ever faster toward our future.

Here’s more about it:
Depending on your vantage point–as a Babyboomer, Gen Xer, Millennial, or Digital Native–the vast array of technology available to us today can be overwhelming, awe-inspiring, or just the reliable norm. In this relative context, how do we bridge the gap between those who are tech savvy and those who are technology-blind? How do we retain the wisdom of our elders while honoring the imagination and potential of our young people? Is it possible to embrace all of this technology and still remain human? Then again, what might we lose if we are unwilling to shift toward the future and accept the opportunity that all this innovation invites?

In this unique book, thought leaders from our time explore these very questions. Each contribution–whether presented in the form of an essay, poem, letter, dialogue, or fairytale–reveals valuable nuggets of wisdom to ponder as the human race shifts seemingly ever faster toward our future. In the 21st century, we have the potential to be more connected with each other, not less.

Life before Facebook and mobile texting wasn’t better, just different. The imagination of today drives the technology of tomorrow. Love is always at the center.

Written from the perspective of multiple authors, this book speaks from a powerful collective voice of individuals who gathered and wrote together at the CAMalot 2012 conference (www.camalot2012.com) in Braselton, Georgia. Inspired by speaker and futurist David Houle (author of “Entering the Shift Age”), these professional coaches, nonprofit leaders, ministers, and more took the spirit of the conference and conversation–along with their own deep life and professional experience–and poured it into this book.

Read it fast, or digest it slowly. Then read it to someone younger than you or gift it to someone older. We are all in this together. Let the dialogue between today’s thought leaders and the world’s next generation of leaders begin!

Right now the book is available at a discount so I wanted to share that information with you as well.

December 2012 Friends & Family Book Kick Off – 15% off list price –> discount code NADFV6U7 for my clients and friends so they can get their own copy of the book from the e-store (ends Jan. 1 2013) (https://www.createspace.com/4079939)

Take a peek. And if you do decide to read it, I would love to hear your thoughts.

Some things require that we have the answers plotted and planned out before we begin. Going on a vacation with my family is a good example of this. I know I am interested in going on a warm vacation sometime this winter with my family. After many discussions, we’ve decided on a family cruise. Based on our criteria of what makes a good vacation; we selected the eastern Caribbean as our destination. How did we get to this point? Quite simply, our first step was knowing what we wanted…a warm climate, someplace with palm trees, being all together in one location and relaxing versus site seeing.

It’s easy once you know what you want, because all that is required is to take steps toward having it. Getting Clear About What You Want is step #6 in my newly published book on Amazon, “9 Steps to Creating Your Next Bold Move; A Guide for Women Who Want to Turn Their Dreams Into Reality.” Check it out, the 9 steps are valuable to help you move forward with something you are wresting and sorting through, whether or not you are a woman.

Knowing what you want comes from identifying what you care about most. This is always the hardest question for me to answer. I recently had this experience when working with my new book launch coach, Kelly Walden Sullivan. Kelly and I are putting together a plan and structure to make a BIG splash and book launch on May 1, just in time for Mother’s Day. Our first planning session was this past week and like a good coach, she asked me what my goal was for getting this book out there in the world. You would think I would have had the answer on the tip of my tongue. You would think I had planned my reason for writing this book from the very beginning. You would think this, the most basic of all questions, would be so simple for me to answer. Nope, this was so far from my mind, I was actually stumped. And shocked that the answer was so far from my grasp. I thought about the usual suspects, like going on the speaking circuit and talking about my “9 Steps” or positioning myself to get interviewed on all the morning talk shows. It’s not like these aren’t good ideas, but somehow they didn’t quite float my boat the way I thought they would. (Here is how you know you are on the right track for yourself, IT HAS TO FLOAT YOUR BOAT!)

So I slept on it.

And in a half-awake half-asleep state one morning, I started to think about how much I adored the book, Mists of Avalon. And wondered what Mists of Avalon had to do with my book launch and what I wanted to create. And realized how much I want women to feel like the women of Avalon which I would describe as living their highest gifts and talents and living them out loud…..loud and proud. In Avalon, world benefitted on so many levels because women are doing and being who they are meant to be in the world.

And this idea FLOATED MY BOAT!

So, I don’t know what this yet means or even more importantly what I’ll do next. But I do know one thing, it’s so important to take one step before I chicken out or talk myself out of what seemed like a really strong vision that cold crisp fall morning. So, I wrote my idea down and emailed it to my coach.

And I am still imagining what might be possible if my book inspired millions of women to take their own unique step forward. Ahhhh, now we’re talking.

It’s not always necessary when you are creating something new to have all the answers. Just take a step and see if your boat is floating and your heart is singing.

9 Steps to Creating Your Next Bold Move

You have to know who you are, before you can be a valuable member of any community.

You have to know what you stand for, before you can connect deeply with others.

You have to know what your unique gifts and talents are, before you can collaborate effectively with anyone else.

Basically, you have to know what makes you shine, sparkle, and light up in order for anything else, I mean anything else, in this crazy world to make any sense at all.

How do you know what you want? How do you figure out what you stand for? How do you discover your sparkle in the world that is uniquely yours? And why the heck would you want to do that?

Because you have to discover yourself if you want a life that is deeply satisfying, fulfilling, happy, with all that you’ve ever dreamed for. There is no other way. So how do you get all these goodies?

The simple answer is: Follow the Joy….Your Joy

When I was 25 years old, I had been dating my college sweetheart for over four years and decided we should either head towards marriage or break up and not see each other any more. I put a lot of pressure on us to make a choice, and the choice I was pushing us toward was marriage. We had many conversations together and with friends and family that went something like this….”How do I know if I should marry him?” “ How do I know if he is the right one for me?” “How do I know….?” In retrospect, I wish someone had said to me, follow your joy and bliss, because although he was one of my best friends, and we loved doing so many things together, my heart did not sing in ecstasy, my soul did not shout with joy, my quiet voice deep inside did not drown out my long list of concerns. We did finally marry, had two beautiful children and then a few years later divorced. The truth deep inside was that I was ambivalent, even from the very beginning. And so was he. And truth be told, I did not follow my joy. Instead I pushed, controlled, and drove to what I thought and others convinced me was the right thing to do. I did not listen to my inner voice.

So what happens if you don’t find your real self? The real you. The you that has your special blend of gifts and talents?

You marry the wrong person. You end up in the wrong job. You find yourself critical of others, crabby and dissatisfied with may parts of your life. You attract the same kind of people to be your friends- And worst of all you pass all this down to your children.

There is no greater calling. There is no greater job. There is nothing else to do in life, but to just be yourself and notice what brings you joy. And then follow that.

So how does this work? What do you do starting right now?

It’s simple, really, connect with the part of you that knows. The deep quiet voice inside that knows what’s important for you and what you really want. And if you notice you are miserable, that’s not it. Switch gears. Try a different way. Try something else. Notice your bliss meter and when it’s high, you know you are on the right track and when it’s low…switch gears.

As an executive coach and advisor to CEOs and their executive teams, I hear every day, how fast our lives are moving. We are so busy being busy. So many commitments, activities, things to do. Places to go. People wanting things from us. I know how easy it is for all of us to get swept away by the to-dos of our jobs and our lives. Following our joy and finding ourselves requires us to unplug, be quiet and listen to what we really want. Only, you know what’s right for you. You just have to teach yourself to listen. Deeply. And follow and do the things that bring you the most joy.

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Women need to believe in the brilliance of their own ideas.  So often, we sabotage and second guess ourselves.  It’s time to stop this nonsense.  Maria Shriver has such great down to earth and powerful advice in this great blog post and her 10 Rules for Brilliant Women.  I love every single one of them.  We could really rock out, if we followed these more often. Maybe we should form little groups or grab a partner and hold each other accountable.  What do you think?

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